Freud au XXIe siècle - Freud in the 21th century

Colloque bilingue et pluridisciplinaire organisé par Jan Goldstein (University of Chicago)

With his pioneering book, The Interpretation of Dreams--which he audaciously billed “the royal road to the unconscious”-- published in the symbolic year 1900, Sigmund Freud very much belonged to the twentieth century. His always controversial theories powerfully influenced not only the treatment of patients suffering from nervous ailments, but also academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences; they even made inroads into popular culture. This conference surveys Freud's place in the intellectual firmament from the vantage point of the opening of the twenty-first century. Has he retained a commanding position? How have Anglo-American and French readers appropriated his texts differently?

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Friday, May 23

Opening talk: Elisabeth Roudinesco (Université de Paris VII, historienne, écrivain, psychanalyste)

What Kind of Knowledge is Psychoanalysis?

• Roland Gori (Université d’Aix-Marseille, Président de la Société Inter-Universitaire Européenne d’Enseignement et de Recherche en Psychopathologie et Psychanalyse)
• Yoram Yovell (Institute for the Study of Affective Neuroscience, University of Haifa; psychoanalyst)
• Andreas Mayer (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)

Psychoanalysis as Therapy

• Dana Birksted-Breen (Psychoanalyst in London; Editor, International Journal of Psychoanalysis)
• Jean-Jacques Tyszler (psychanalyste, Association lacanienne internationale)

Saturday, May 24

New Directions in the History of Psychoanalysis

• John Forrester (History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University)
• Jacqueline Carroy (EHESS; directrice du Centre Alexandre Koyré)

Psychoanalysis as a Methodology in the Social Sciences

• Paul-Laurent Assoun (Université Paris-7 Denis Diderot, psychanalyste)
• Joel Whitebook (Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research; psychoanalyst in New York)

Psychoanalysis as a Methodology in the Humanities

• Francoise Meltzer (Comparative Literature and Romance Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago)
• Eric Santner (Germanic Studies, University of Chicago)